Air India Express to offer direct flights from Ghaziabad's Hindon airport to Patna, Varanasi

Air India Express is set to launch flight services to Varanasi and Patna from Ghaziabad's Hindon civil terminal next month. An Airbus A320 aircraft with a capacity of 180 passengers will depart Varanasi at 11:05 am to reach Hindon at 12.40 pm. The flight will fly back to Varanasi at 1:35 pm.

The first flight to Patna will take off at 11.50 am to reach Hindon at 1.40 pm. It will leave for Patna again at 2.25 pm and reach there at 4.10 pm.

Bookings for both the routes have opened. As of April 14, the basic fare for Patna to Ghaziabad is Rs 5,573 (excluding other charges) and Rs 4,700 for a flight from Ghaziabad to Patna for the first week of May.


The fare from Hindon to Varanasi is Rs 3,384 and Rs 3,669 on the return journey during the same period.

Hindon civil terminal has seen a growing passenger base. Passengers from Ghaziabad, Noida, East Delhi and nearby Saharanpur and Meerut are increasingly opting to fly from the terminal to save time and travel cost.

The terminal is located about 25 km from Delhi and is well connected via the Hindon Elevated Road and Delhi Metro's Red Line stations of Shaheed Nagar, Raj Bagh, and Rajendra Nagar Metro and Vaishali station on the Blue Line.

The passenger terminal, an ajunct to the IAF airbase, now has flight services to all the metro cities, with a daily flight each to Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, and two to Bengaluru. Air India Express also operates on Goa, Jammu and Bhubaneswar routes.

The increase in operations has brought fresh challenges, as the terminal, which previously handled only Udan flights with limited traffic, is now seeing a rapid surge in demand..